Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Last week as I was maneuvering my Japanese carbon emitter
home, I heard on the radio that scientists have been taking consistent readings
of over 400ppm of carbon dioxide in the Arctic.This is now well above the 350ppm that is
considered a sustainable amount of emissions.

Awesome huh?Imagine
how lucky we are to be experiencing this first hand.I mean think about it, the last time there
was this much CO2 on the planet, was 800,000 years ago.Boy, are we ever lucky!Sounds like winning the lottery huh?

Hmmm, I wonder what it is that could be so greatly aiding
this new greenhouse gas milestone?Do
you think it might have something to do with what the International Energy
Agency announced last week about how in 2011 - CO2 emissions from
fossil fuels hit a record 34.8 billion tonnes?Just for fun that’s 76,720,000,000,000 lbs.

Or could it be that the single greatest democratic
enterprise on the planet offers its opposition to the status quo in the form of
a gaggle of cartoon characters that want to pretend that global warming doesn’t
even exist.They hope beyond hope that
they can deceive the American public long enough to oust the heretic Obama, and
ensure once and for all that their slavering orgy of fossil fuel profits continues
for as long as they can personally benefit.

Or possibly it’s because this greed capitalism, in hand with
conventional partisan politics has created such perversity on this planet that
Mr. Obama, the Bugs Bunny character in the Looney Tunes that is American
politics, virtually never even mentions climate change because being mired in
the midst of an election campaign - it just doesn’t poll very well.

Doesn’t it seem fitting that the only real analogy I can
come up with to clearly convey my thoughts about the surreal state of Global
politics is classic cartoons.What I
read and see on the news is really not a whole lot less preposterous than
Marvin and his Martian cohorts using an Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
to eradicate Earth because it’s blocking their view of Venus.

Now being such a fervent Canadian, I know 400ppm can’t have
anything to do with the maniacal antics of Stephen H. and his merry band of
resource robbing illusionists and what they’re attempting to do with their
Omnibus Bill C-38 and the tar sands, all under the guise of creating economic
strength and balance.Nooooo, this
absolutely has nothing to do with it.

Just a second…doesn’t Omnibus Bill C-38 sound a lot like
Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator?Told you this was the cartoons!

It’s funny how we react to numbers these days.Like if three of the 000’s just disappeared
from 76,720,000,000,000, would we really even notice or comprehend the
impact?It’s like when I heard on the
radio last week about us breaching the 400ppm mark.They may as well have said that the science
community had baked 400 really tasty cookies, for all the impact it had.We are so inundated with statistics and
confounded with information that it sometimes seems really difficult to care
anymore.

If you talk to members of the younger generation, those with
their noses stuck in their laptops half their waking time, they’ll tell you
that they’re sick and tired of reading anymore global warming (or any other
emotionally charged) rants on the internet.What they want to read about is what the hell action people are taking
to actually do something about it.

All I know is that I’ve had enough.400ppm has pushed me over the edge. I’ve done a lot over the last year to
change my existence but it’s still been pretty comfortable and
conventional.Well get ready, cause it’s
about to get crazy.It’s time to move
forward with action.

Last night was June 04 and it was the very first of twenty-one
consecutive days of a Peace Meditation on Parliament hill.This is being organized in conjunction with
our guru dude from India - Swamiji.Similar
Peace Meditations have taken place in Washington, Toronto and Vancouver and we
figured it was high time the capital of this country had one.

I tried to get them to call it “Occupy Enlightenment” but
those damn Ashramites thought it too radical.

So if anyone out there wants to join in with some peaceful
activism, or possibly you just want to live out that lifelong desire to offset
missing out on the 60’s, there will be a gathering for one hour, every
weeknight between 7-8pm and Saturday and Sunday between 10-11 am beside the
eternal flame until June 24.You really
can’t miss the group.They’ll be the
ones boisterously meditating.

Don’t fret if the idea of meditation intimidates you.It’s simple to do and you will be guided throughout.And whenever you feel silly you can at
anytime quickly open up one eye and check to make sure that everyone else isn’t
pointing and laughing at you.

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Hey! I’m Jerry. I recently left a well paying job after twenty years because it bored the hell out of me and left me feeling pretty well useless.
My wife Suzanne and I went to an Ashram in India and I kind of put some things together there. One thing I put together for sure is that I need to write.
SpiritY'all is mostly anecdotal stuff about conventional third dimension things like travel, culture, literature, current events, even fashion and sports with a wise-ass spiritual and ecological perspective.
I know it sounds a bit contradictory but I believe that juxtaposition is one of the beauties of life.
Oh yeah and as I’m one of those that believe the Earth reached critical mass long ago, I won't waste a lot of time on sensitivity.